God, that entire article was such obvious sockpuppetry. Whoever wrote that has Zaslav's hand positioned right up their ass.
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Who could have possibly predicted burning bridges makes people not to want to work with you?
Edited by megaeliz on Aug 29th 2022 at 11:30:29 AM
God, you know things are bad for your studio when people are legitimately going, "Yeah, I'd rather work for Amy Pascal and Tom Rothman".
Disney100 Marathon | DreamWorks MarathonI mean that's what they want, right? They claim that Batman won't make money on their service and their hoping to make a shit-load licensing it out. The bidding war between streamers is probably music to Zaslav's ears, he's probably rubbing his hands thinking they'll sell it off at a fortune.
A lot of these moves make sense when you realize that Zaslav isn't trying to salvage HBO Max and is in fact preparing to sunset it for this new combo service that in practice is just going to be Discovery+ with some HBO stuff. You'd think it'd be smart to have something big like the Batman cartoon on this new service anyway to entice people to subscribe but that assumes he cares about actually cultivating a proper streaming service. Which he doesn't, because he's a Two Decades Behind reality TV exec, which means streaming is little more than glorified VOD generating passive income while he chases more traditional forms of profit.
Edited by Watchtower on Aug 29th 2022 at 7:11:51 AM
…Wait a minute, isn’t Dune (2021) (part 1 and the upcoming part 2) also on HBO Max?
Zaslav wouldn’t dare to also can that one, would he? I, uh, would save the movie’s progress on a separate hard drive if I was Villeneuve, just in case. >.>
Edited by Lyendith on Aug 29th 2022 at 2:39:14 PM
Dune Part 2 isn't going to be a Max original, so it's probably fine. The problem here is that Zaslav doesn't get streaming in particular and refuses to believe that it is, inevitably, the future of content distribution.
Disney100 Marathon | DreamWorks MarathonZaslav can't pull Dune off HBO Max. Warner Bros is the distributor, not the production company. It's part of why Apple+ has the Monsterverse TV show instead of HBO Max, because Warner Bros doesn't actually own the property, they just have a distribution deal with Legendary.
There was also that whole kerfuffle where WB seriously ticked Legendary off by trying to not do a theatre run for Godzilla vs Kong and had to make a bunch of concessions for future movies to allow for HBO Max runs. Pretty good chance that WB isn't allowed to take any Legendary productions down without their express permission, or there's a significant financial penalty.
And yeah, stuff disappearing off streaming services happens all the time. Stuff getting pulled to deliberately make the library smaller? That's entirely unprecedented and goes directly against how streaming service subscriber retention works. Former examples are invariably due to rights issues.
Sony's only "the joke" to people who are terminally online and make memes out of movies they dont like.
In reality, Sony owns one of the big five movie studios and has vast holdings in tv as well, like Crunchyroll, among other things. They're a largely successful company in basically any way that is measured.
Its something people forget when they whine about Sony owning the Spider-Man rights.
Sony's big issue is that they keep faceplanting with the big blockbusters. Jumanji and the MCU Spider-Man movies are their only genuine recurring hits, everything else either gets lukewarm responses or absolute bafflement from audiences.
Their smaller movies do fine and like
said, they have vast holdings in TV. Because Sony doesn't have their own streaming service, they produce TV for everyone else. Especially Amazon and Apple. An enormous number of the big TV hits for the past decade and a half, plus...about 80% of the major sitcoms everyone remembers from the past, were Sony or made by companies Sony bought.
Like, Sony makes Wheel of Time for Amazon. Amazon gets to bear the burden of the price of that and Sony gets the pay for the actual production, making a profit that way, regardless of how well it does streaming. It's where a huge amount of their money comes from.
Edited by Zendervai on Aug 30th 2022 at 3:07:25 PM
Sony is still a giant, but they have been struggling tremendously for the past decade and this is not a secret to anybody
. The reason the MCU Spider-Man movies exist to begin with is Sony taking a pragmatic approach in that visible struggle to keep up with the other film giants by joining forces with the biggest game in town.
in essence.
Edited by Gaon on Aug 30th 2022 at 12:09:21 PM
"All you Fascists bound to lose."You said something that was false, so I pointed out how it was incorrect, calmly. Not sure how that was aggressive or rude.
And i didnt really accuse anyone of anything. There's a general trend on the internet, here and elsewhere, to complain about Sony owning the rights to Spider-Man. It would be silly to pretend that there isn't (recently people complained that Sony wouldnt let Spider-Man be in She Hulk, though there's no evidence it was a unilateral decision by Sony). I wasnt trying to call you or anyone else out in particular, that's why I didn't name anyone specifically.
If you felt personally insulted, then I apologize.
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... who the heck goes and says Batman wont make you money?
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Real good argument against capitalism there.
Edited by SatoshiBakura on Aug 29th 2022 at 5:43:55 AM